Show:
CHAPTER 4
Chapter 5 or 6
EASY
HARD
Mr. Whybrew's Mystery
100
These are the group of people in the world who invented the rifle.
Who are the Europeans?
100
This process separates grain for main plant
What is Threshing?
100
A boat that is propelled by a steam engine, especially a paddle-wheel craft of a type used widely on rivers in the 19th century.
What is the steam boat?
100
What century was the year 1750 AD in.
What is 18th Century?
100
This color of the rainbow has the lowest frequency
What is RED?
200
A geographer is one who studies this.
What is land?
200
A machine for separating cotton from its seeds
What is the Cotton Gin?
200
Sir Isaac Newton said, “What goes up must come ___________.”
What is DOWN?
200
Components that are used to store an electrical charge
What is capacitor?
200
This person would carefully handwrite words on a scroll or pages in a book, which would sometimes take years to complete, and was very costly.
Who is a SCRIBE?
300
This is what Johannes Gutenberg is famous for inventing.
What is the Printing Press?
300
This can be a chemical or natural substance added to soil or land to increase its fertility.
What is Fertilizer?
300
Is a cloth canopy that fills with air and allows a person or heavy object attached to it to descend slowly when dropped from air.
What is a PARACHUTE?
300
A medical instrument used for listening to heart & lung sounds.
What is a Stethoscope?
300
Is an instrument used to measure air pressure
What is a Barometer?
400
Only 1 of these was invented in the 14th Century: Telescope, Cannon, Double Bookkeeping System, Sliderule
What is the CANNON?
400
A system of blades that was pulled across land by animals (and later tractors) to create a furrow for planting seeds
What is Steel Plough?
400
This color of the rainbow has the highest frequency.
What is Purple (or violet)?
400
He was the man who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe, challenging Ptolemy’s model that the earth was the center of the celestial bodies.
Who is Nicolaus Coppernicus (or just Coppernicus)?
400
This temperature scale is used more commonly around the world
What is Celsius?
500
He made modifications to the Telescope so one can see further into space.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
500
This man used nitroglycerin as an explosive, developed the dynamite, made military weapons, and founded the famous Peace Prize.
Who is Alfred Nobel?
500
Made by twisting a length of a wire and used to fasten fabric together
What is a Safety Pin?
500
This is the most powerful invention of the Industrial Revolution as it completely changed the standard of living, created more jobs, and moved people from the country to the city.
What is the POWER LOOM?
500
He is famous for first inventing and organizing the periodic table.
Who is Dimitri Mendeleev?